Tag Archives: Circle

Thought For the Day: Few Are the Giants of the Soul Who Actually Feel That the Human Race Is Their Family Circle

Posted on October 11, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.” – Freya Stark, explorer and writer (1893-1993)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Circle, Family, Feel, Few, Freya Stark, Giants, Human Race, Soul, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Wall of Ego

Posted on September 10, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Wall of Egoby Michael DoyleSelf righteous PhariseesAre often truth’s worst enemiesIn looking down on others, you miss the skiesSelf-deceived by our prideful, lying eyesMissing the mark of God, in favor of meBelieving myself the pilot of my lifeI mistake my … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A Say, Adds Up To Nothing, Arrogance, Aspire, Bad Habits, Blasphemy, Boastfulness, Celebration, Certain, Cheapens, Choose, Chord, Circle, Cognition, Compare, Compared Against, Complaints, Control, Cure, Define, Destination, Determine, Divinity, Driven, Enemies, Evaluation, Fault, Favor, Forget, Full-Blown, Gifted People, God, God Flow, Habit of the Heart, Heaven, Humbleness, Humility, Identity, Insist, Know, Life In the Spotlight, Living, Looking Down, Lose My Steps, Loud, Lying Eyes, Mature, Me, Miss, Missing the Mark, Mistake, Others, Part, Pharisees, Pilot of My Life, Poetry and Poems, Reality, Realize, Recognition, Replace, Respectability, Revealed, Second Nature, Self Given, Self Righteous, Self Sympathy, Self Worht, Self-Deceived, Self-Fascination, Skies, Spirituaity, Squeeze, Story, Stumble, Success, Superiority, Tale, Truth, Unneeded Strife, Victory, Walk, Walking Straight, Wall of Ego, Want To See | Leave a comment

Remember To Forget

Posted on July 6, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Remember To Forgetby Michael DoyleAs long as there is lifeThere is, at least, some hopeRegardless of our strifeThis helps us to quietly copeThose things that bring us to edgeWe need to forgive as our sinThat which as brought us to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Begin Again, Brashness, Break, Caught On Fire, Circle, Comedy, Common Man, Contradiction, Cope, Dante, Dawn, Deranged, Doing Good, Doing Unto Others, Dramas, Edge, Eternity, Fake, Forget, Forgive, Found, Ghosts, Goethe, Golden Rule, Good, Grow, Hope, Human Operation, In the Flesh, Infinity, Informal Philosophy, Inspire, Jealousy, Know, Lack, Learn, Ledge, Lessons, Life, Long, Mist, Motifs, Nations, No Getting Past, No Live and Let Live, Our Condition, Payback, Poetry and Poems, Precious Time, Puzzled Complexities, Remember, Revenge, Secret Alphabet, Secret Seeds, Shakespeare, Sin, Sincere, Souls, Spoken About, Stories, Strange, Strife, Sublime, Vengeage, Vexatious World, Words of Wisdom, World, Worthy To Hear | Leave a comment

Whispered My Reminder

Posted on February 16, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Whispered My Reminderby Michael DoyleWhispered my reminderOf how it should beI thought I’d never find herMy side by side for eternityYou hear it said that true loveLasts and you know it never endsGod reveals this from abovePatiently blessing lovers as … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Always On My Mind, Bears All Things, Believing, Blessing, Blessings Felt, Brings, Circle, Completes, Conquer, Dimmed Mirror, Eternity, Every Beat, Every Day, Find Her, Fresh Start, Friends, From Above, God Reveals, Godly One, Good, Hear It Said, His Woman, Hope, Hope of Tomorrow, How It Should Be, I know, It Never Ends, Kind, Know, Knows, Lady, Lasts, Leave Me Undone, Leaving It Behind, Love, Love Is, Lovers, Mean, My Battle Flags, My Side By Side, My Wounded Heart, No Other Way, Nothing At All, Old Ways, One Another, Patient, Patiently, Poetry and Poems, Promising, Recall, Reminder, Replace, Slip Away, Sorrow, That I Should, This Man, This World, Thought, True Love, Walking, Whispered, You and Me, You Know | Leave a comment

Meditative Movement

Posted on May 24, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

In these last months, as if we haven’t been too sedentary in the first place, we have been almost nothing but stuck in and out of sorts with finding ways to keep moving. This is counter to what is best … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Angst, Best, Blood Flow, Bolder, Breath, Care, Center, Circle, Circulation, Close, Deep Breath, Deserve, Disease, Doubt, Dullness, Ease, Enter, Eyes, Feet, Found, Fullness, Gentle Openness, Good Care, Ground, Hands, Heart's Center, Heed, In, Know, Lengthen, Life, Life and Death, Lifestyle, Look, Meaning, Meditative, Meet, Mind and Body, Mindful, Move, Movement, Moving Meditation, Natural Stopping, Nature, Need, Neurological, Observation, Out, Photograph, Physiology, Poem, Poetry, Present Age, Pull, Round, Science, Sedentary, Self Massage, Shoulder, Spine, State, Strife, Twist | Leave a comment

Jesus Wept (Ephphatha)

Posted on March 11, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

God took the form of man and lived experiencing all that we do. In so doing, He experienced all of our feelings. Based in part on John 11:38: Jesus Wept (Ephphatha) by Michael Doyle One of the best secrets never … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Agony, Angst, Beyond, Blood, Brokenness, Cacophony, Childbirth, Circle, Clear, Comfort, Convey, Courage, Deaf, Dealt, Deep, Deeply, Depth, Deserve, Despite, Divinity, Ears, Earth, Eden, Embrace, Ephphatha, Experience, Fallen, Family, Father, Feeling, Felt, Garden, Gethsemane, Glimpse, God, Grief, Groan, Hear, Heaven, Home, Hope, Humanity, Jesus, John, Loss, Lost, Man, Measure, Melody, Memory, Mercy, Mirth, Miss, Moan, Mortal, Move, Mud, Open, Outspokenness, Pain, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Redemption, Regain, Relief, Remember, Secret, Sin, Sound, Steady, Storm Cloud, Symphony, Teach, Tears, Touch, True North, Truth, Vain, Way, Wept, Within, Words, Worth | Leave a comment

Dead Men and Their Tales

Posted on March 4, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Even Al Capone thought of himself as a public servant… Dead Men and Their Tales by Michael Doyle It is strange so it seems Clinging to faraway dreams Thoughts stuffed inside my head Dedicated to a father long since dead … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Age, Al Capone, Allow, Been, Book, Calculate, Cast, Cheer, Circle, Contemplation, Dark, Dead Men, Dedicate, Dream, End, Father, Fright, Gallows, Glory, Head, History, Hope, Legend, Lip, Listen, Loop, Lot, Math, Meditation, Meet, Might, Mystery, Near, Night, Noose, Path, Photograph, Pirate, Pleasures, Poem, Poetry, Praise, Proud, Public Servant, Read, Repeat, Right, Rumor, Sage, Seem, Shadow, Sin, Soul, Story, Strange, Tale, Whisper, Wise | Leave a comment

Gratitude For A Unified Field of Connection

Posted on November 20, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

A poem in the light of gratitude #20: Gratitude For A Unified Field of Connection by Michael Romani Increasingly one for less and less punctuality While I search for gratitude as my reality I find much of it has to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abundant, All, Analysis, Apart, Around, Bits, Bond, Certain, Change, Circle, Competition, Confuse, Confusion, Connection, Deep, Demand, Deserve, Diversity, Energy, Fear, Field, Frequency, God, Grateful, Gratitude, Guide, Heart, Illusion, Influence, Lady Love, Love, Manna, Me, Mind, Nihlistic, Observe, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Proposition, Punctuality, Reality, Relationship, Right Intention, Scarcity, Self Absorbed, Small, Source, Struggle, Surround, Think, Together, Truth, Uncertainty, Understanding, Unified, Unity, Universe, Vibrate, View, World, Worship, You | Leave a comment

Dignity of Being

Posted on September 26, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

On the dignity of being that says all has its place and there is no such thing as not being good enough. We are all either exactly what God intends us to be or finding our way to this. Dignity … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All, Being, Bend, Bittersweet, Blend, Blessed, Break, Breath, Breathe, Burn, Circle, Composition, Cycle, Dance, Death, Decomposition, Demand, Dignity, Discern, Done, Each, Eternity, Exhaustion, Eye, Fireman, Floor, Flow, God, Grow, Infinity, Intention, Interconnection, Life, Living Things, Majesty, Miarcle, Mother Nature, New, Nitrogen, Old, One, Opportunity, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reform, Salmon, See, Sing, Stand, Strife, Tapestry, Transition, Upstream, Wildfire, Wire, Within, Wood, Woodland, Woven | Leave a comment

Wolf’s Call Coming

Posted on July 22, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Love and life are becoming increasingly clearer in my mind as part of one and the same. Without love there is no life, without life there is no love. And what of this to a man who has been told … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Call, Choice, Circle, Courage, Death, Drum, Eyes, Faith, Fall, Fear, Fight, Gaze, Ghost, Incendiary, Last Days, Life, Limited Time, Live, Love, Man, Military Man, Mystery, Pass, Persevere, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Reason, Reflect, Sanctuary, Sight, Sound, Spectra, Time, Voice, Well, Wise, Wolf, Wonder | Leave a comment